Originally Posted by tonnadesigns
To any of you out there who are raising your grandchildren, I just want you to know I admire you, greatly!!!!! I am 47 years old and recently kept a friend's grandchildren she is raising for the night. I was so exhausted when they left! I seriously do not know how a person does this!
I was about that age when we got our first grandchild. It was then I began to appreciate God's plan of giving babies to young people! LOL
I had too much patience to discipline properly. And, his tears could make me want to weep.
Made me wonder what had happened to that mom I used to be. <g>
If a youngster's parents can't be there for him, then thank God that there are grandparents there to take over, rather than have some faceless, nameless strangers nurturing him - - there are some things ONLY family can accomplish. <wave>